Anthropic Updates Usage Policy to Address Misuse and Abuse

<figure> <img alt="Machine brain." src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/STKS522_AGI_D.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Anthropic has updated its usage policy for the first time in over a year to address new and high-risk cases of misuse, including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial applications. A significant change in the policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" directed at Claude.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">In August 2025, the company announced that Claude would be allowed to end conversations with users who are "persistently harmful or abusive" as part of its research into "model welfare." The updated policy states that terminating conversations remains the "primary enforcement mechanism." Anthropic did not provide further comments on the changes.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1008100/anthropic-new-usage-policy-abuse-claude">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>